- ... that1
- Note:
The Problem was discussed at length at the Math Circle Workshop on
June 6th 1998 in Lawrence Hall of Science. Let's see if anyone
remembers the beautiful solution we saw there! Now, imagine you are in
7-8th grade, and you haven't yet heard of ``trigonometry'' (oops,
that's a hint for the advanced! :-)), and your whole world of
geometric tricks consists of similar and congruent triangles, and,
say, you know that the sum of angles in a triangle is
. Can you do with? Play with it and see how far you can
get. Solutions to this Problem 1 and Problem 2 will be handed after
the talk.
- ...
Assignment.)2
- Warning: Don't try this at home unless you really know
what you are doing! This problem is really hard. When you see the
solution you will be surprised that it doesn't require any advanced
mathematical tools; BUT how one can come up with such a solution -
that where the mystery is! So, good luck. :-)